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role in Sophist tradition

...and Isocrates. Plato’s dialogue
Protagoras describes something like a conference of Sophists at the house of Callias in Athens just before the Peloponnesian War (431–404
bce).
Antimoerus of Mende, described as one of the most distinguished of Protagoras’s pupils, is there receiving professional instruction in order to become a Sophist, and it is clear that this was already...